Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels
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Key Game
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Electronic Arts
Released On:
01 Jan 1995
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Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels is a mix of a First-Person-Shooter and a tactical fighting game set in the Warhammer 40k background. The game follows the fight between the Terminators of the Blood Angels Chapter of Space Marines and the Tyranid Genestealers.
You control up to ten Terminators, giving them orders in a tactical screen or taking over one to navigate a 3D environment and fight the Genestealers. This mix of tactical planning and First-Person-Shooter action provides a good balance.
UPC-A:
014633073737 (United States)
ISBN-10:
078450279X (United States)
eBay Product ID:
56221981 (United States)
ASIN:
B000BTSUB6 (United States)
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Number of Players Supported:
1 Player
Input Devices Supported/Optional:
Controller Pad
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Manual
Game Guide
Extracted from the original game manual
Set in the grim darkness of the 41st millennium, this game casts the player as a Terminator-class Space Marine of the Blood Angels Chapter tasked with neutralizing the insidious Genestealer threat. The premise revolves around investigating Space Hulks drifting in the Warp, where these alien parasites have infected entire crews through a terrifying genetic propagation cycle. Players must deploy their superior firepower and tactical dreadnought armor to purge these vessels of the alien brood before the infection can spread to human worlds.
Story
Introduction
The time is the 41st millennium. For 20,000 years, mankind has expanded throughout the galaxy, aided by a phenomenal invention known as the Warp Drive, which allows huge spatial distances to be traversed in a matter of hours. Under the auspices of the Emperor, a psychic so powerful he is essentially immortal, a pan-galactic Imperium has been established.
The defenders of the Imperium are the Legiones Astartes, or Space Marines. These are biogenetically engineered warriors of superhuman prowess, ever vigilant to destroy the many threats that face mankind across the cosmos.
Your Role
You are a Space Marine, belonging to one of the oldest and most honorable Chapters known as the Blood Angels. Their battle honors date back as long as the Imperium has existed, and you have acquitted yourself well among such heroic company.
You find yourself assigned to the Terminator Company. Among the thousand warriors that compose a Space Marine Chapter, only the hundred most valiant and gifted brothers are deemed worthy of this honor.
Terminators are the Chapter's ultimate warriors. They are encased in a huge armored suit known as Tactical Dreadnought armor, which makes them all but impervious to conventional weaponry.
Armed with the most devastating weaponry available, Terminators stand in fear of no foe, no matter how potent.
The Enemy: Genestealers
Among the most insidious of mankind's enemies are Genestealers, a strange and terrifying alien race. They are reptilian in appearance, appearing as huge, armored, six-limbed beasts.
They are preternaturally swift and unbelievably ferocious in combat. A Genestealer knows no fear, charging into combat irrespective of any threat to its life.
Incredibly hard to kill, and all too capable of inflicting death themselves, it is no surprise that Genestealers are considered one of the foremost threats to mankind's survival. However, there is another, more frightening element to their nature.
Genestealers are incapable of reproducing amongst themselves. They must rely on other races to expand their population.
The Infection Process
The method they employ for this purpose is terrifying. Upon encountering a suitable host, such as a human being, a Genestealer will fix its piercing eyes upon it.
This mesmerizes the host much like a Terran snake does its prey. While the host is thus hypnotized, the Genestealer will extend its tongue, which contains a hollow, pointed tube known as an ovipositor.
It will pierce the host's skin with the ovipositor in a gruesome parody of a kiss. It deposits a small egg-like cell that contains the Genestealer's genetic profile.
This cell behaves like a cancer, malignantly coursing through the host's system and altering its genetic profile. The victim shows little outward sign of this infection.
In fact, he gains some of the Stealer's remarkable strength, resilience, and longevity, becoming healthier than he was before. The effect is only really evident once the victim comes to reproduce.
Generations of Hybrids
Once they come to mate, the offspring of any victim is born as a Hybrid. This is a bastard creature exhibiting characteristics of both Genestealer and host species.
The Hybrid itself is equipped with an ovipositor, which it uses in a similar manner to its Purestrain parent. This cycle continues, with each new generation of Hybrid resembling the host species more and more closely.
By the time the Genestealer brood has reached the fourth generation, the offspring is barely detectable as alien. There are only a few giveaway signs, such as unnaturally sharp teeth and a purplish tinge to the skin.
The offspring of this fourth generation is procreated in a conventional, i.e., sexual, manner. It can result in either a Hybrid, a normal member of the host species, or a Purestrain Genestealer.
A Purestrain Genestealer is the only manner in which Purestrains can be produced. All the generations are linked in a psychic community.
Consequently, Purestrains, Hybrids, and hosts all conceive of themselves as constituents of the same brood.
The Threat to the Imperium
The manner in which Genestealers carry out their reproductive process is of exceptional danger to the Imperium. Whole planets can fall to the Genestealer threat.
The affected humans look and act no different from normal. The hosts are extremely secretive about the insidious curse they bear.
Indeed, the first an external agency may know about the presence of Genestealers is once a whole planet has been affected by the curse. This requires total cleansing and repopulation.
Imperial authorities are thus extremely keen to terminate the Genestealer menace at source. They act before it has a chance to affect any nearby planet.
Space Hulks
The prime manner in which Genestealers come into contact with humanity is through the use of Space Hulks. These are spaceships of human origin which have become lost in Warpspace.
They become lost either through a malfunction of the ship's Warp Drive, or just as a consequence of traveling in a medium as uncertain as that of Warpspace.
The human occupants having died, Genestealers and their Hybrid brood move in. They settle down to hibernation until the drifting Space Hulk comes into contact with a species ripe for infiltration and domination.
Your Mission
So thus it is that, whenever a Space Hulk is detected in the proximity of a human planet, the stalwart warriors of the Space Marines are detached. Their goal is to rid the Hulk of its Genestealer cargo.
This prevents any chance of another planet falling victim
Controls
D-Pad Left
Rotate left
D-Pad Right
Rotate right
D-Pad Up
Move forwards
D-Pad Down
Move backwards
LeftShift and Up
Look down
LeftShift and Down
Look up
RightShift and D-Pad
Scroll mini-scanner display
RightShift and LeftShift
Re-center mini-scanner display on active terminator
Stop
Quit
Start
Freeze game and bring up map section
A
Fire weapon 1/Strike in close combat
B
Fire weapon 2/Parry in close combat
C
Pick up/Drop item/Open door/Close door/Cut through door (if armed with Chain Fist)
RightShift and A
Self-destruct (if armed with a Heavy Flamer or Thunder Hammer)
LeftShift and RightShift
Zoom to center of selected Terminator
Left/RightShift and Start
Unfreezes and freezes game while in map section
Left/Shift and B
Reverse cycle through commands
RightShift and C
Reverse cycle through Terminators
LeftShift and C
Select Terminator under crosshair
LeftShift and Left/Right
Toggles Terminator names On/Off
How to Play
From the Antechamber
You find yourself in an ancient stone passageway deep within the more remote areas of the Chapterhouse. The walls are hung with tattered battle honors dating back thousands of years, and suffused with the flickering light of guttering candles. Few have been deemed virtuous enough to tread this far, worthy of the honor of wearing one of the revered suits of Terminator armor into battle.
Two doors stand before you; the left-hand one leads to the sanctum of the Chapter's Techmarines, where the Initiate can be trained in the intricacies of Terminator control, briefed with information on Humanity's foes, or receive a simulated experience of battle against the fearsome Genestealers. To the right stands the door that will take you into the presence of the Blood Angels Commander, veteran of a hundred such battles, to be briefed in your next mission against the enemies of the Imperium.
If you have no prior Terminator experience, you should report to the Head Librarian for training.
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Select the left-hand door with the D-Pad.
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Press A.
The Vigil
In the Ministorum of the Blood Angels there is a chamber steeped in the history of the Chapter, tended by the mightiest Librarians, psychic brothers charged with preserving the spiritual sanctity of the Chapter. Only the most worthy Space Marines are permitted entry.
Those applicants who wish to bear the honor of Terminator Armor must first undergo the Vigil, a state of deep psychic trance that allows the Space Marine to experience the lives and actions of the greatest warriors that have served the Chapter. During the Vigil, the Space Marine will experience visions and dreams of past glories and defeats, allowing him to take command of long-dead warriors as they fight on through eternity. If the Initiate is accepted by the spirits of his ancient brethren, he will emerge a full day and night later, a newly ordained Space Marine Terminator ready to face real combat.
Return to the Antechamber by pressing Stop from the Vigil main menu.
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Select the right-hand door using the D-Pad.
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Press A.
You will enter the Commander's chambers to receive your first combat briefing.
Mission Selection
Training:
These are four missions designed to familiarize you with the realities of Combat and Command inside a Space Hulk (see the QuickStart section for more information).
Space Hulk Originals:
This option gives you the chance to play missions from the original Space Hulk boardgame.
Classic Missions:
Classic missions are a selection of missions from the original PC Space Hulk game.
Famous Missions:
The so-called Famous missions chronicle the achievements of the most heroic Terminators of times past. Mastery of these missions will prepare you for the ultimate challenge you will face in the Campaign.
Once you have selected the type of training mission you wish to play, press A to reveal a submenu of all the missions of that category. Select the name of the mission you wish to attempt with the D-Pad and press A. A map of the mission area will appear behind the on-screen text, allowing you a glimpse of the battlefield whereupon the honor of the Blood Angels will be won or lost.
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Scroll around this area by holding down RightShift and using the D-Pad.
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A voice-over will inform you of the mission objectives.
If you feel that the mission is within your capabilities, press A again to be taken to the Battlezone (see In the Battlezone). If you wish to hear the mission briefing again, press Stop. If you decide that you don't want to play that mission, press Stop while the mission briefing is being spoken to bring up the submenu, and select another mission with the D-Pad. Further presses of the Stop button will take you back through the various menus.
Note that, when you finish a mission, you are presented with a screen full of statistics. The stats on the far left are the historical ones; that is the time in which the historical squad finished that mission. In the middle are the stats you have just achieved, while in brackets to the right are your saved best statistics. These are saved on an individual basis; for example, if you kill a record number of Genestealers in a mission which is otherwise unremarkable, that number of kills will be saved.
If you successfully complete a mission you will be offered the chance to attempt the next mission in the series. Select Play next mission and press A. If you fail a mission you will be asked if you wish to try to lead the Blood Angels to victory again. Select the Replay last mission option and press A. If you feel you have trained enough, highlight the Select another mission option and press A. You will return to the Antechamber.
Vengeance of the Blood Angels: The Space Hulk Campaign
You emerge from the Vigil, weary but proud. You have trained long and hard, honing your skills to the point that you are deemed trustworthy and adept enough to represent the Blood Angels Terminators on the battlefield. You are donning your suit under the watchful eye of a Techpriest when a gentle chime resounds through the room, indicating that the Blood Angels Commander is summoning you for your first briefing. Steeling your jaw, you stride towards his chambers, the Techpriest frantically trying to tighten the last few buckles as you go.
You will commence the Campaign as the lowliest member of the Terminator squad, and hence will have no command over the actions of your fellow Terminators. Instead, you will be issued orders by the Squad Leader, which you will hear verbally as you progress through the mission. A red arrow will appear on the MiniScanner, indicating the place you have to go to perform the order, and a red square appears at the precise
Enemies & Characters
Hybrid
The offspring of a host species infected with Genestealer genetic material, appearing humanoid with pale mauve skin, a bulbous head, and sharp teeth. Hybrids usually have two arms and are armed with Bolters, understanding and using weaponry due to their human heritage.
Magus
A Hybrid psyker from the fourth or fifth generation, practically indistinguishable from a human except for preternaturally sharp teeth and a faint mauve tinge. Magi are extremely intelligent and dangerous, possessing psychic abilities including an aura shield, Hellfire, Jinx, and Teleport.
Patriarch
An ancient, fat, and immobile Purestrain Purestrain that serves as the progenitor of extended Hybrid clans and psychic monitor of the brood. The Patriarch possesses powerful Jinx and Hellfire abilities and can summon every Genestealer within range to its assistance if threatened.
Items & Weapons
Power Glove
A large hydraulic fist containing a powerfield generator that surrounds it with an aura of crackling energy, making a Terminator a potent foe in close quarters combat.
Chain Fist
A Power Fist mounting a heavy-duty chainsaw encased in a powerfield for cutting through armor plate, though it is unwieldy in combat and offers little survival advantage over a Power Glove.
Power Sword
A sword containing a powerfield generator that makes the blade incredibly sharp enough to slice through armor or chitinous carapaces, typically carried by senior Space Marines.
Thunder Hammer and Storm Shield
A combination consisting of a hammer that discharges massive energy on impact and a shield with a protective energy field; the Terminator can also discharge all powerfields in a fatal explosion to kill surrounding enemies.
Lightning Claws
Four powerfield-sheathed claw-like blades mounted on each arm, allowing a Terminator to fight more effectively than a Genestealer with the skill of a Squad Commander.
Objects
Key items necessary for mission completion or encountered in the Battlezone that can be picked up or put down using the C button.
Heavy Flamer Reload
Picking this up gives a Terminator with a Heavy Flamer another six shots.
Grenade Launcher Reload
Picking this up gives a Terminator with a Grenade Launcher another six shots.
Assault Cannon Reload
Picking this up gives a Terminator with an Assault Cannon another fifty shots.
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